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Questions & Answers about Парк здесь.
How can you tell that парк is a masculine noun?
In Russian, you can usually tell a noun's gender by its last letter. Парк ends in a consonant (к), which is the standard rule for masculine nouns in their basic dictionary form (the nominative case).
Where is the word for "is" in this sentence?
Russian skips the verb "to be" (am, is, are) in the present tense. Instead of saying "The park is here," you literally just say "Park here" (Парк здесь).
How do we know it means "The park" and not "A park"?
Russian doesn't have articles like "a" or "the". You figure out which one is meant from the context. Since we are pointing out where a specific place is, "The park" translates best into English.
What is the purpose of the letter ь at the end of здесь?
That is the soft sign. It doesn't make a sound on its own, but it tells you to pronounce the consonant right before it (the с) softly.